IN his Rutherford Memorial Lecture 1 Sir Charles Darwin writes: “The first estimate of Avogadro's number is due to Maxwell himself”, and expresses his astonishment that Maxwell “should have ...

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Avogadro libraries provide 3D rendering, visualization, analysis and data processing useful in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.

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